The iPhone 15 Pro is starting to look like a professional Super 16mm camera for filmmakers. A larger 1/1.28″ main sensor which is nearly Super 16mm size (and not far off 1″) Apple LOG, recording 4K ProRes externally, 28mm & 35mm crop modes and a pretty cutting edge zoom optic on the back as well. Although it shouldn’t be missed that an Android phone can record 4K RAW internally in Cinema DNG format, Apple has taken the iPhone to new heights for videographers with the iPhone 15 Pro. A shout out to Dave for the video above and his discovery of the SD card trick. Although I had expected Apple to go USB C, I hadn’t expected them to go all out with it. Fast transfer speeds, external ProRes recording, you name it. How long before we get ProRes RAW on an iPhone? There’s also the new Blackmagic app for the iPhone. This doesn’t shoot BRAW, but does offer some handy manual controls and different flavours of ProRes from LT to 4444. The LT data rate in particular is very useful for a phone, with little sacrifice in image quality for much smaller file sizes compared to 422 HQ. But it is Apple LOG which is the headline feature of the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. This disables the tone-mapping of HDR 4K and the over sharpening, as well as giving you the ability to use LUTs (in-phone with the Blackmagic app and in post) and making the...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Thursday, 28 September, 2023